Persepolis 1 Dialectical Journal Essay

Reason 1: Readers can be more in tune with author’s emotions, and create a bond.
First, readers find it easier to be able to understand author’s complex emotion from reading memoire in a graphic novel. In Persepolis 1, the use of memoirs tells the emotional complexity of love, extended families, friends, sex, education, and all the other things that go into Marjane’s life. For example, readers can understand the Marjane’s complex emotions, especially the love to her parents. In page 33, Marjane feels uncomfortable to sit in her father’s Cadillac, because they are in a higher social class compared to their maid. In page 49, Marjane feels ashamed of her father’s stable work, compared to Laly’s father as a soldier fighting for Iran. However, in page 152, she expresses her love to her parents by saying I love you at the airport. Therefore, by following the flow of memoire, readers can understand the complex emotions of the authors, and create

Readers will reflect on their experiences, borrow or copy the effective ways of doing after they trust the reliability of the story. In Persepolis 1, I enjoy seeing the way Marjane communicating with her parents, and their communication style really impressed me. For example, Marjane’s parents send her to Austria for protecting her in page148 and page 149, and Marjane understand the parents love is about giving her freedom, rather than keeping her beside themselves. When I reflect on my own experience, I was one of the lucky children with open-minded parents. For me, my parents love me by affording me to a university in Canada. I am inspired to learn the way in the story Marjane express her love and appreciation so often to her parents by hugs and words, which makes her parents happy. From author’s memoire, as a reader, I learned useful skills with trust about communicating with parents and expressing love to